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Originally Posted by Greenlight
The HP for 3 cars was hit at the No Problem race.
1 of the 3 is not mentioned in the 6 pages of comments, 1 is congratulated, and the other 5 1/2 pages focus on the 3rd car.
When the HP on that particular combination was increased from 268 to 272 in 2015, no comments were made on this forum regarding the person(s) responsible for affecting that HP increase.
Kent's car has always been quick and he works on it to make it quicker (as we all should do). He is by no means a "rich" guy who spends 10s of thousands of dollars to improve his combination. He had no idea the car was on that quick of a run and was just as unhappy as every other person with that combination that he "hit" the HP.
It's obvious (because his car was torn down and found legal) that anyone with that combination can run that quick. Spend more time working on your combination and less time complaining that other's did and reaped the benefits of hard work.
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Greenlight just about every time anyone has gone 1.20 under that I can remember there have been threads about it. 2015 we got hp due to a review and I was one the many that flagged the combo by hitting the 1 under mark that year and even though we all worked to get the average back down we were a little short. So kind of apples to oranges in this case and like was said I'm sure Mr LaPorte feels bad about it I've never met him but always heard nothing but good things. I've worked very hard on this combo too and can tell you it's not really fast anymore, only way it could go that fast is under these conditions from this past weekend. So another 9 hp pretty much puts it in the same league as the LT-1 now, in obscurity. I did congratulate him on his RU and will move on like everyone else but you'll have to excuse me for being a little bitter also at the moment and not really at him either but more at the system. Like I said those conditions were the only way this combos goes 1.20 under and there's nothing in place in the the current system to say hey this ain't right this combos not really that good but rather here's your 9 hp. The system is good enough to know two thirds of the field went 90 something under or better so their runs don't count but this one does. Just don't seem right to me.....